The Bill Simmons "Tayshaun/Summers for Big Baby & expirings" deal

[Glenn]

Assuming that we actually do something with the cap savings and not just pocket it, I like this deal quite a bit.

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Basically, we get a cheap but productive PF/C and three expiring deals totaling nearly $7m for the right to shed Tay's contract and Summers.

The Celtics may be motivated to do this even moreso now with Pierce's injury.

[Glenn]

And two more SGs! (right Fool?)

[Hermy]

Can we do anything with that cap space? Supposing the cap only drops another 2 mil (word is it's looking betwen 4-7 now) I think we're limited below the MLE. Baby is too small to really start at the 5......not sure we gain a whole lot, but I'm concerned we don't gain much by losing Tay in another year either.

[WTFchris]

Would gaining 7 mil in space really do anything for us though? Really we'd have to send Max and Wilcox somewhere as well, or RIP to really have enough money for a significant player.

I would suspect Tay would have pretty good value as an expiring next year (along with Wilcox too). I'm fine with trading him now, but he better bring back a good center or we need to move enough to sign one.

[Glenn]

Are you guys factoring in Kwame's 4m?

[Glenn]

Also, we could flip some/all of these expirings in another deal at the deadline.

[WTFchris]

Are you guys factoring in Kwame's 4m?

well, we are at 51 mil next year unless Wilcox opts out. The cap is expected to be right around there, so that 7 mil wouldn't put us in the running for any great FA's given the amount of teams who have cleared space for the big names. Would 7 mil really bring us any better player than Tay? We'd need twice that before I'd be confident of getting a good player.

[WTFchris]

2010 UFA bigs:

Brad Miller - ok, but old
Shaq - again, age
Big Z - another oldie
JO - getting older too
Amare - sure
Bosh - of course
Boozer - he's a PF though

How many of those guys will take 7 mil to come here? The rest of the bunch will provide even less than these guys and certainly not make us contenders.

our best bet with 7 mil might be Haywood. Would that be enough to win with?

[Glenn]

See, I'm thinking more like Okafor and one of the Hornets young PGs for the 11m in expirings.

[Glenn]

Would anyone think turning Tay & summers into Okafor, Big Baby and a young PG would be a bad thing?